EVERYBODY'S.
beaut.iwl kitty oorixm in "VLRA TEE MEDIUM." "Men with me are nothing hut a mei'iis to an end—l hate thein." This is tile scornful gibe of tin; adventuress who is t-iie central ili/uro ui "Vera the* Medium," the super-feature film being screened at Everybody's to-day and tonigh. Kitty Gordon plays the title role,, and sho is the embodiment of the irresistible feminine force which is possessed by certain queenly women. With great daring, the author has opposed this force to the nearest approach to an immovable object in the shape of a man that tan be imagined. The man she attacks is a perfect husband, in penect surroundings, a man apparently in the forties with a grown-up son." In the •struggle between Vera and her vietim, such dramatic power is reached thai his struggles become almost painful. Slowly hut surely he succumbs, and his disillusion is so severe that the drama becomes a striking moral lesson. The drosses worn by tlio star are a liberal education in the art of clothes. On the night programme the fine military drama by the Bluebird Company. "Behind the Lines," will be added to the programme.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1917, Page 2
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193EVERYBODY'S. Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1917, Page 2
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